The St. Petersburg scholar and bibliographer, Evgeniy Beladubrovskiy, has issued his second reprint of Nabokov’s second book, Два пути [Dva puti / Two paths]—“two paths” because of its two poets, Andrey Balashov (eight poems), a Tenishev schoolmate of Nabokov’s, and Nabokov (12 poems).

Dva puti, Renome, 2013

This edition is like Beladubrovskiy’s 2003 reprint (see A3.2 in the A-item draft pages) in that it attempts to reproduce the 1918 original edition. However, it has a larger page format, on each page of which appears one page of the 2003 edition and, bordering it, documents, newspaper clippings, photographs, manuscript and book pages, and other graphic material related to Nabokov, the Tenishev school, and the St. Petersburg of 1918. Also, Beladubrovskiy has written a 15-page introduction.

It is a very attractive volume that is essentially the only way the Nabokov collector, scholar, or librarian can acquire this rarest of Nabokov books. You can inquire about purchasing a copy by writing to Beladubrovskiy at profpnin@mail.ru. (I’ve never asked him why that particular mail handle. In his photos he looks very un-Pninian.) Beladubrovskiy’s English is about equal to my Russian, which is very little. But with a little help from Google translate, you can communicate adequately.

Альманах: Два пути [Al’manakh”: Dva puti / Almanac: Two paths], edited by Evgeniy Beladubrovskiy, St. Petersburg: Renome, 2013, in wrappers, ISBN 978-5-91918-303-7. 300 copies of which 100 are numbered.